Untreated mental illness and pharmaceuticals
A rather macabre poll: over the next 100 years, which do you think has a higher chance of (directly or indirectly) killing more than a billion people?
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And cancer, and heart disease, and a lot of other things. I'm curious about the way people think about these two particular risks.
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An interesting difference that I think the choice of question elides is that if you look at the probabilities of killing more than N people, nuclear weapons have a much slower drop off towards zero as N grows large. I think the answer flips somewhere in the 3-6 billion region.
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Very interesting (& horrifying, ofc) way of thinking!
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Come on we all know the answer is a paper clip making AI
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Didn't realize view results were so deadly
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What’s the mechanism where climate change could kill a billion people? Famine? War? Economic displacement?
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If you had said millions or tens of millions I would have voted differently. A curious thing, the human brains scale insensitivity...
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Climate change will increase madness and the likelihood of nukesmanship.
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